APRIL VERBAL

(Till Apr 29th)




Today’s Words:

1. Maverick(n): someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action.
Synonyms: nonconformist, independent, loner.

2.Meet(v): to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter; to become acquainted with;
Synonyms: get together, rendezvous, confront, intersect, converge, unite.
Antonyms: adjourn, scatter, diverge.

3. Embolden(v): to make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage

4. Prevaricate(v): to speak falsely or misleadingly; To stray from or evade the truth;
Synonyms: evade, shift, equivocate.

5. Lachrymose(adj): suggestive of or tending to cause tears; tearful; given to shedding tears readily; mournful.

6. Dilettante(n): a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement.
Synonyms: amateur.

7. Wardrobe(n): a stock of clothes or costumes; a room or place in which to keep clothes or costumes; a piece of furniture for holding clothes

8. Resilient(adj): springing back; rebounding; returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
Synonyms: elastic, flexible, springy.

9. Ethereal(adj): extremely delicate or refined; Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality;


Analogies:

1. Opera :music

2. Meet: embloden

3. wardrobe:garment


Issue topic:

1. People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.

Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell. "Two years ago, the town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean View's tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. The best way to improve Hopewell's economy, and generate additional tax revenues, is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."

(Till Apr 25th)


Today's Words:

1. Stasis(n): the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces; A condition of balance among various forces; motionlessness.

2. Proffer(v): to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
Synonyms: bid, proposal, tender.

3. Belie(v): to show to be false; to misrepresent; to act unworthily according to the standards.
Synonyms: refute, disprove, controvert, repudiate, confute, gainsay.
Antonyms: prove, verify, support.

4. Repudiate(v): to reject as having no authority or binding force; to reject with disapproval or condemnation.
Synonyms: disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim, condemn, disapprove, deny, disacknowledge, reject.
Antonyms: accept, approve.

5. Aggrandize(v): to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend; to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor.
Synonyms: inflate, strengthen, exalt, magnify.
Antonyms: reduce, diminish, minimize.

6. Lithe(adj): bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible; Marked by effortless grace.

7. Happenstance(n): a chance happening or event

8. Spartan(adj): sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere; Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained, brave; undaunted.

9. Mulish(adj): as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack.

10. Persuaded(v): to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging; to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.

11. Impetuous(adj): of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, moving with great force; violent.
Antonyms: planned, careful.


Analogies:

1. Impetuous: hesitancy

2. Mulish : persuaded


Issue Topic:

1. Importance of general welfare of people of a country rather than its achievers.


Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University. "Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."

(Till Apr 22nd)


Today’s Words:

1.Garbled(v) : to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble; to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.)

2.Confession(n): The act or process of confessing.; Something confessed, especially disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution; a public declaration of your faith
Synonyms: avowal; admission; acknowledgment

3.Succumb(v): to give way to superior force;to give way to superior force; To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
Synonyms: submit, accede, surrender.

4.Surfeit(n): excess; an excessive amount; excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
Synonyms: superabundance, superfluity, stuff, gorge.
Antonyms: lack

5. Laconic(adj): using few words; expressing much in few words; concise
Synonyms brief, pithy, terse; succinct.
Antonyms: voluble.

6. Rotundity(n): the condition or quality of roundness or plumpness, as of an object or person; fullness, as in tone or speech

7. Benediction(n): an utterance of good wishes; a blessing, an invocation of divine blessing

8. Ablution(n): a cleansing with water or other liquid; a washing of the hands, body, etc.

9. Glutton(n): A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink; a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something;

10. Quaint(adj): having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way.
Synonyms: antiquated, archaic, curious, uncommon
Antonyms: ordinary.

11.Magniloquent(adj): speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful; Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.

12.Dust jacket(n): A removable paper cover used to protect the binding of a book.

13. Apocryphal(adj): of doubtful authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity

14. Authenticity(n): The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine
Synonyms: genuineness, realness, truthfulness, validity

15. Recant(v): to withdraw or disavow a statement, opinion, etc.; retract.


Analogies:

1.Dust jacket: books

2.Apocryphal: authenticity

3.Recant : spend

4.Glasses: vision

Issue Topic: 1.There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws